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Ohio State researchers and students gathered in Pomerene Hall on Sept. 24 for two events exploring transfer learning: a workshop featuring Ohio State faculty and graduate students, followed by a…
Faculty, staff, students and partners from across Ohio State gathered Sept. 9 at the Energy Advancement and Innovation Center for the 2026 TDAI Fall Research Kickoff.
The event highlighted…
A new study led by Ohio State researchers found that illicit fentanyl use is more than twice as common as medically based use in the United States and is associated with a substantially higher…
Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala, program director at The Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), has been invited to lead a featured session at the inaugural…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomes Vincent Davidson as a Graduate Teaching Associate supporting the Master of Translational Data Analytics (MTDA) program.
Davidson is…
TDAI Faculty Member Qin Ma and his research team have received a new five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) R24 grant to advance research on congenital heart defects in Down syndrome. The…
TDAI is celebrating Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala, our Program Director who leads interdisciplinary research and oversees the Master of Translational Data Analytics Institute (MTDA), whose…
TDAI faculty member Xiaolin Cheng is part of the collaborative team that launched Buckeye BioLaunch at The Ohio State University. Buckeye BioLaunch is a new AI-enabled initiative that will…
Researchers from across The Ohio State University recently gathered in Pomerene Hall for the Joint Human-AI Systems (JHAS) Idea Lab, an interactive workshop hosted by the…
Associate Professor of Anthropology Sean Downey, an affiliate of TDAI and Core Faculty in the OSU Sustainability Institute, led the paper, "Adaptive Self-Organization of Global Swidden Forests,"…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University is now accepting applications for the 2026 AI and Data Science Graduate Fellows Program.
This prestigious two…
TDAI Successfully Concludes AI in Your Research Summer Workshop Series
This summer, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) successfully completed its AI in Your Research Workshop…
TDAI is accepting proposals for 18-month interdisciplinary thematic programs designed to catalyze bold, transformative research with the potential to shape the future of data science and AI in…
Translational Data Analytics Institute Faculty Director Tanya Berger-Wolf has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—one of the most prestigious honors…
As part of TDAI's yearlong Geometrization of AI research theme, faculty gathered on March 24 for a seminar on private philanthropic funding for AI-focused research. Kristina…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) and AI(x) Hub welcomed researchers, students, and partners from across Ohio State and beyond for the inaugural OSU AI Research Summit…
Seminar and Workshop Explore Spatial AI Through a Geometric Lens
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted a seminar and interactive workshop on March 11–12, 2026 featuring
The Geometrization of AI theme within the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomed Misha Belkin, Professor at the University of California, San…
Joint Human–AI Systems Speaker Series Explores Responsible AI for Cardiovascular Health
January 30, 2026
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) welcomed
On Thursday, January 15, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted a full-day LI-COR Photosynthesis Workshop and Lab in
Students, postdocs, and research scientists are invited to submit research posters, demonstrations, and/or visualizations related to the four tracks of the OSU AI Research Summit, which TDAI and…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI recently hosted a community event marking the close of the first semester of its yearlong theme, Joint Human–AI Systems in an Agentic World…
As part of The Geometrization of AI theme, the Translational Data Analytics Institute welcomed Dr. Gauri Joshi of Carnegie Mellon University to Pomerene Hall on Friday,…
Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Distinguished University Professor and Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, has received a 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual…
TDAI welcomed Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez of Carnegie Mellon University on November 20, 2025, for a seminar exploring how humans and AI systems can work together more effectively…
As part of its Yearlong Theme on Joint Human–AI Systems in an Agentic World, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted an engaging session exploring how artificial…
Alex Davis, Senior Data Scientist at The Ohio State University’s Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), presented on behalf of the institute at the 2025 AI Fluency Forum,…
TDAI Core Faculty Member Gil Bohrer, along with lead author Justine Missik and a team of Ohio State researchers, has developed ECODATA, a new open-source software suite designed to simplify the…
TDAI Director Tanya Berger-Wolf and Member Rajiv Ramnath were co-authors on the paper, “ML Field Planner: Analyzing and Optimizing ML Pipelines for Field Research,” which earned the Best Full…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) proudly congratulates Dr. Ping Zhang on his election to the esteemed 2025 Class of Academy Fellows of the…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is proud to congratulate affiliate faculty member Dennis Hirsch, who was formally invested as the Lawrence "Larry" Herman…
On September 22, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) hosted Dr. Fei Wang for a talk on Deriving Holistic Insights from Biomedical Data. Dr. Wang, a leading researcher in…
A landmark paper on the tumor microbiome, which is microbial genomes detected within tumors and adjacent normal tissues, was published today in Nature Methods after nearly two years of…
TDAI is proud to acknowledge Faculty Member Huan Sun, Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor, for receiving two competitive research grants from Open Philanthropy to advance AI…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to establish the Center on Responsible AI and Governance (CRAIG), a multi-university Industry…
TDAI Launches a Bold New Year of Research at Annual Kickoff Event
On August 21, 2025, the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University welcomed…
We were proud to welcome the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2025) to Columbus, Ohio, on August 3–5, 2025, hosted in the …
TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management
A new study published in Agricultural Water Management…
TDAI Faculty Affiliate Contributes to National Academies Report on Aligning Therapeutic Development Investments with Public Health Needs
The National Academies of Sciences,…
Data Science Spotlight: Setting New Standards for Human–AI Teaming in Safety-Critical Settings
TDAI Faculty Fellow Mike Rayo and TDAI Faculty Affiliate Dane Morey…
TDAI core faculty Subhadeep Paul (Department of Statistics) and Mahdi Khali (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) are PI and co-PI respectively on a new NSF award, "Heterogeneous…
During the week of July 7th, the Translational Data Analytics Institute welcomed students entering grades 7 through 9 for its annual Data Science Summer Camp, a hands-on immersive…
TDAI is proud to announce its Catalyst Grant recipients for the 2025-2026 year! Four outstanding researchers have been selected based upon their project proposals and have each been awarded $10…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is thrilled to share that Dr. Weidan Cao, TDAI Affiliate Faculty, and their research team have received funding from NCI for a new R01 on Multimodal AI…
This week in our Data Science Spotlight we are highlighting TDAI core faculty member, Joseph Bayer, and his interesting research into the world of social media and its effects on our behavior and…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) has expanded its Data Science Services to provide even more robust support for faculty and research teams across The Ohio State University…
Determining cause of death is not always straightforward, especially in parts of the world where medical resources are lacking. In fact, fewer than one-third of global deaths receive an official…
TDAI Core Faculty member Dr. Huan Sun, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a College of Engineering Innovation Scholar at Ohio State, has been selected by Schmidt Sciences…
This week's Data Science Spotlight highlights Darren Drewry, one of TDAI's core faculty members, and his work in studying the make-up of beans utilized in many plant-based protein products.
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The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) officially launched its new hands-on workshop series, AI in Your Research, with an inaugural session led by TDAI Data Scientist Dr. Alex Davis…
This week for the TDAI Data Science Spotlight, we are highlighting core faculty member, Xia Ning, and her pioneering research in AI-powered drug discovery.
Dr. Ning, a professor of…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute co-hosted the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Complex Systems workshop event with the AI Edge Institute on May 8-9 in…
Electric vehicles, also known as EVs, are more than just a mode of transportation – they are a reflection of who we are. A research study co-authored by TDAI core faculty member, Andre Carrel,…
This week in the Data Science Spotlight, we are highlighting TDAI core faculty member Steven Quiring and his impactful work at the intersection of atmospheric science and data analytics. Dr…
Core faculty members Tanya Beger-Wolf and Marta Jarzyna are co-authors of a new paper titled "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fill Global Shortfalls in Biodiversity Knowledge".
While…
On March 31 – April 2, 2025, the Translational Data Analytics Institute held the 2025 Data Science Leadership Summit, an event that gathered around 100 distinguished leaders, educators, and…
Study analyzes millions of U.S. prescriptions over 10 years
by Emily Caldwell, caldwell.151@osu.edu
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The combination of prescribed…
Recently, TDAI's Faculty Director Tanya Berger-Wolf sat down with Food for Health's Science Spotlight -- a segment of their website used to introduce faculty members who are highly engaged with…
Core faculty member Huan Sun was recently interviewed for a Nature News article titled, "Scientists Flock to DeepSeek".
The article goes into detail about the development of DeepSeek-R1, a…
Congratulations to TDAI faculty David Melamed, Subhadeep Paul, and Dennis Hirsch for receiving Accelerator grants through the most recent cycle of the President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program…
TDAI is accepting proposals for central Big Idea Themes that will be the focus of TDAI programming for a year, with a longer-term vision. TDAI will fund the selected themes and teams and support…
Xinmiao Zhang, core TDAI faculty member in ECE, has been elevated to the prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow in recognition of her outstanding contributions to error-correcting codes and…
On the 7th and 8th of November, faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and Ohio State centers and institutes participated in the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum hosted by the…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is commending Xia Ning, Huan Sun, and the rest of their female-led PhD team on their paper titled “G2Retro as a two-step graph generative models for…
At the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16), held from October 21 to November 1, Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf represented The Ohio State University, the Imageomics Institute, the ABC…
By Jeff Grabmeier, news.osu.edu
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Corporate efforts to use artificial intelligence in a more socially responsible way have a surprising benefit – they can often improve…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) invites proposals for postdoc and faculty flash talks for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, Nov. 7-8 in Pomerene Hall, the theme of…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) invites proposals for student flash talks and posters for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, Nov. 7-8 in Pomerene Hall, the theme of…
TDAI's Foundations of Data Science & AI CoP directors are organizing a monthly mini-tutorial series presented by graduate students and postdocs this semester…
Have you heard about TDAI’s new Yearlong Themes initiative? (Read the Call for LOIs here.)
Are you interested in submitting your big ideas for a yearlong…
The Translational Data Analytics Institute congratulates the teams who received the 2024-25 TDAI Interdisciplinary Research Pilot Awards:
David Melamed (TDAI; Sociology, ASC)…
Call for Papers—Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2025
The fourth annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at
The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) seeks an Academic Program Services Senior Consultant with data analytics/data science experience to lead TDAI’s education, training and outreach…
Collaborative teamwork is vital to science. Learn from a team of experts
Interdisciplinary Team Science - EEOB/ANTHRO/ENR 5510 - is being offered Autumn 2024 for graduate and undergraduate…
Deadline to submit: Oct. 25
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is accepting letters of intent for researcher-driven, yearlong thematic programs to catalyze big ideas…
STARTING JULY 10:
TDAI is sending out a form to confirm individuals' continued desire to be a member of the TDAI community, update TDAI membership directory/networking…
Members of the Imageomics Institute won Best Student Paper honors at the 2024 IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference for their BioCLIP species identification research…
New deadline to submit: Friday, June 28
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held…
COMING IN MID-JULY:
TDAI will be sending out a form to confirm individuals continued desire to be a member of the TDAI community, update TDAI membership directory…
New deadline to submit: Friday, June 14
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held…
Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, has been awarded a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Specialist award to examine …
TDAI Core faculty member Ping Zhang (Computer Science & Engineering, Biomedical Informatics) and team have designed a new artificial intelligence model that emulates randomized…
TDAI wants our community to be aware that the Ohio Supercomputer Center will be launching its new high performance computing cluster, Cardinal, in the second half of this year…
Deadline to submit: May 31
The Translational Data Analytics Institute invites session proposals for the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum, to be held November 7-8…
TDAI Core Faculty member, Macarius Donneyong (Pharmacy/Public Health), Chair of the 2024 Annual Conference of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE), is pleased to invite…
Deadline to submit: Oct. 25
The Translational Data Analytics Institute is accepting letters of intent for researcher-driven, yearlong thematic programs to catalyze big ideas toward realizing…
TDAI Internal Adivsory Board member Cynthia Carnes (Pharmacy, Physiology and Cell Biology, Senior AVP for Research Operations), and TDAI Affiliate faculty members Matthew…
TDAI core faculty Macarius Donneyong (College of Pharmacy and College of Public Health) has been invited to serve as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine …
Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline.
TDAI Director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will speak at AMLD Africa, an instance of Applied Machine Learning Days to be held Feb. 27-29 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event features AI/ML leaders from academia…
TDAI core faculty Ping Zhang, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering and biomedical informatics, is lead PI of a team awarded a new Accelerator grant from OSU's President…
TDAI Core faculty member Dr. David Melamed (Sociology), Dr. Brent Simpson (Sociology, University of South Carolina), and OSU graduate student Bradley…
TDAI Core faculty member Dennis Hirsch (Law), TDAI Leadership Team member Srini Parthasarathy (Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science & Engineering), TDAI…
When Natalie Hurst started the Masters of Translational Data Analytics program she was working as a data analyst at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC). She knew she wanted to expand…
Nearly 200 faculty, students, postdocs and staff from Ohio State and beyond participated in the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum co-hosted by TDAI and the Sustainability Institute Nov. 8…
TDAI, in collaboration with partners in the Interdisciplinary Research Enabling Initiative, is accepting proposals for compelling research pilots and creative expression projects that are:
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Two TDAI core faculty members, Raef Bassily (Computer Science & Engineering) and Darren Drewry (Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering) are among the five…
TDAI affiliate Dr. Harmony Bench, professor of dance, and Dr. Kate Elswit from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey,…
The Ohio State Symposium on Large Language Models hosted Oct. 2 by TDAI's Foundations of Data Science & AI community of practice and the Institute for Cybersecurity & Digital Trust brought…
